[PATCH] newsyslog - archive logs with a timestamp

[Dan Rue]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> I'd rather see an extension for newsyslog which would rotate foo to
> foo.2007-08-12.gz, iff rotation is done every day at midnight.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but this is something that I've been looking
for for a long time as well.

There's even a patch that's been sitting in purgatory since 2001.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30654&cat=

Dan